About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say that, like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for their hostages; there are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity. Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. ~ilana

NEW ESSAY IS “Israelis NOT Sweating Sde Teiman Rape! Prosecutor’s ONLY Concern: Leaked Rape Tape Undermines Israel’s International Legal Impunity.” It is currently on The Unz Review, where it led the page as one of two feature essays. And on LewRockwell.com, anti-state, anti-war, pro-market. 

READ IT NOW on IlanaMercer.com.

Excerpt:

There’s a reason I purposefully avoided mention of the fracas in Israel over the leaked Sde Teiman video, in the companion column to this one: “Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces: Habitual.”

You see, the Hasbara herd seems to have one gift, in Israel and stateside. They live in a self-reverential and self-referential world: They talk from under wet cement about … themselves. And, they are training you to do the same: talk about them.

As hard as it is for this lot to compute; the genocide, however, is about their victims, Israel’s victims, the Palestinians.

About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say the following: Like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for only their hostages; the same Israeli society is not unhappy about crimes against Palestinians; but that one such crime had been made public to the detriment of their criminally complicit countrymen.

More so than mere publicity—after all, Israel is conducting genocide to a packed house, the world—Israel’s military advocate general worries that the leaked Sde Teiman footage will undermine Israel’s international legal impunity.

The case of the rectal-rape-with-objects of a Palestinian hostage, one among thousands held in the legal limbo of detention-without-trial, was leaked by the Military Advocate General’s office (MAG), whose apparatchiks had heretofore never expressed—nor acted to convey—regret, remorse, contrition, or penitence over the genocide ongoing. (So you know, Israel has merely shifted to “genocide lite” and to the “ghettoization” of the Strip.)

There are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. The leak of the filmed rape is but a procedural, administrative annoyance, the “Minister of Defense and many others in the political sphere and public discourse,” even claiming that any criminal proceedings constitute a “blood libel.”

At about this time, Israeli think-tank residents are fretting. As the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) put it (in all sincerity), it is imperative to preserve “Israel’s legal and diplomatic ‘resilience’ internationally, and thus … our ability to protect IDF (Israel Defense Forces) service members from legal risks around the world.” …

… READ THE REST. “Israelis NOT Sweating Sde Teiman Rape! Prosecutor’s ONLY Concern: Leaked Rape Tape Undermines Israel’s International Legal Impunity” is currently on The Unz Review. And on LewRockwell.com, anti-state, anti-war, pro-market. 

READ IT NOW on IlanaMercer.com.

UPDATE 11/23:  As I told you, grumbling across the world, move the Serial Killer State to make token arrests. There will be no serious prosecutions of the hundreds of settler culprits:

“Israeli Teenage Settler Charged With Terrorism-related Offenses Against West Bank Palestinians”:

“According to the charges, the teenager arrived as part of a group of rioters at a logistics center near the Palestinian village of Beit Lid, where they smashed windows and set fire to buildings, trucks, and vehicles belonging to Palestinian workers.”